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Living in the Homogenocene, Potatoes, and the Drastic Effects of Choice «
Mann described a potential fresh eco-convulsion-in-waiting. “There is an area in southeast Asia roughly the size of Great Britain that is a single giant rubber plantation.” Where rubber trees originally came from in the Amazon there is now a rubber tree leaf-blight that is starting to spread in Asia. “You could lose all the rubber trees in three to six months. It would be the biggest deforestation in a long time.” The entire auto industry, he added, depends on just-in-time delivery of rubber.
crashes-bubbles-shards  mammoth  charles-mann  asia  botany  rubber  anthropogenic-landscapes  anthropocene  from delicious
2 days ago
Secret / Closed Cities - Google Groups
via Nicola Twilley (https://twitter.com/#!/nicolatwilley/status/183922373446205441) -- would love to check out that exhibition.
mammoth  landscape  militarism  urbanism  cold-war  russia  soviet-russia  from delicious
8 weeks ago
The Scourge of Overemployment
Nearly three years since the ostensible end of the recession, the United States is still beset by over 15 percent underemployment—millions of Americans who would like to work full time and either can’t find jobs, or can only find part time work. We know from a large body of research that unemployment and underemployment have many negative consequences, not only financial but physical and mental. But this plague of underemployment exists alongside the corresponding problem of over-employment.
politics  the-new-class-war  economics  employment  from delicious
12 weeks ago
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